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<div>{{Infobox First Lady<br />
| name = Sara Nazarbayeva<br />
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| order = [[First Lady of Kazakhstan]]<br />
| term_start = 16 December 1991<br />
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| predecessor = ''Position created''<br />
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| president = [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]]<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1941|2|12}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Kzyl-Zhar]], [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic|Kazakh SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]<br>{{small|(now [[Kazakhstan]])}}<br />
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| spouse = [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]] {{small|(m. 1962–present)}}<br />
| children = [[Dariga Nazarbayeva|Dariga]]<br>[[Dinara Nazarbayeva|Dinara]]<br>[[Aliya Nazarbayeva|Aliya]]<br />
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'''Sara Alpysqyzy Nazarbayeva''' ({{lang-kk|Сара Алпысқызы Назарбаева}}) (born 12 February 1941, in [[Kzyl-Zhar]], present-day [[Kazakhstan]]) is the [[First Lady of Kazakhstan]] and wife of [[List of Presidents of Kazakhstan|President]] [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]]. She married Nursultan in 1962 after her graduation. They have three daughters — [[Dariga Nazarbayeva|Dariga]], [[Dinara Nazarbayeva|Dinara]] and [[Aliya Nazarbayeva|Aliya]] — and as well as six grandchildren and a great granddaughter.<br />
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A trained economics engineer, Nazarbayeva is the Founder and Chair of Bobek an International Children's Charity Fund. For her work with children she is a winner of the Ihsan Dogramaci Family Health Foundation Prize from the World Health Organization in 1997<ref>[http://www.who.int/governance/awards/dogramaci/dogramaci_winners/en/index.html Previous winners]</ref> and The International Unity Prize.<br />
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==Work with children==<br />
Nazarbayeva is the President of Bobek, an International Children's Foundation, which she founded in 1992 soon after the country became independent. She created Bobek to help mother and child care, provide supervision of foundling homes and orphanages, provide equipment and supplies to schools, aid gifted children from low-income families, and to assist the child health care system.<br />
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In 1997 she launched the first National Children's Rehabilitation Center and the "S.O.S. Children's Villages of Kazakhstan" which are family villages for orphans. These consist of several houses built together in a group where many children live in one house with several caretakers. Nazarbaeva's plans for the children's villages enable the orphaned children to grow up in a family atmosphere.<br />
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